Sermons by Matt Smith (Page 2)
How do we win Olympic medals?
We’re excited to continue our three-week worship series by holding the Lectionary readings from the Gospel of John in conversation with the Olympic Games 2024. Worship this week is rooted in John 6:24-35. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
I Need a Favor
This week we begin a new three-week worship series called Flourishing: God’s Vision for Creation. Each week we will hold readings from scripture alongside ways in which God’s vision for creation is flourishing within us and also all around us. Worship this morning at The Table is rooted in Psalm 85:8-13. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
The Hands that Turn Your Life Upside Down
This week we begin a new three-week worship series called Flourishing: God’s Vision for Creation. Each week we will hold readings from scripture alongside ways in which God’s vision for creation is flourishing within us and also all around us. Worship this morning at The Table is rooted in Ezekiel 2:1-5. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Family
Five-week worship series on breaking through to the other side with Jesus. Each week in the month of June we’ll hear from a different preacher as we hold the lectionary readings assigned to the global church from the book of Mark and wonder about the call of Jesus to break through into new understandings of life and faith. This week we hold Mark 3 in conversation with our notions of family. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming…
Memorial for Kylan Rory Newman
Memorial for Kylan Rory Newman
Lost. Forgiven. Sent.
Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Up and Out
Worship today invites us to reflect upon how this “oneness” emboldened the early Christian community to practice their faith. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
One Heart and Mind
Our four-week worship series in April holds readings from the Book of Acts alongside our hopes for creating community which is rooted in the ways of the Risen One for today. This morning’s worship is rooted in Acts 4. Amid threats from those in positions to judge, the early followers of Creator Sets Free (Jesus) turned to prayer and found a boldness born through intimacy with one another and the Spirit of God in their midst. They disciples came to…
Death Defeated & Life Returned
Our four-week worship series in April holds readings from the Book of Acts alongside our hopes for creating community which is rooted in the ways of the Risen One for today. This morning’s worship is rooted in Acts 4 and the experience of resurrection’s defeat of death and restoring of life. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Easter
Our Easter worship celebrations are rooted in the account of resurrection from Mark’s Gospel. The women found the stone rolled away from the burial cave on that first Easter morning. Terror and amazement covered their bodies like a blanket; leaving them in silence. The faithful silence of the women creates space for the mystery and power of God’s presence to resound. Resurrection doesn’t just pull back the lid from an ancient tomb in Israel or uncover a single grave stone…
Action Verbs
CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. We turn this week to Mark 11:1-11 and Palm Sunday. How does thinking about palm branches as a link to the exodus story, and “Hosanna” as meaning “Save us, we pray!”, change your experience of Palm Sunday? How does it enrich your experience of the movement for a healthy climate? Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI…
Talking the Walk
CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. We turn this week to John 3.14-21 and wonder about how the tendency by imperial Christianity to lift the single verse — John 3.16 — out of context might be reconsidered in light of it’s very context. How might the biblical stories alluded to by John 3, help us to listen more deeply to the stories of our…